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Program seeks
community support

The Sunshine Coast campus of
Capilano College is seeking support
from the local business community
for a new program designed to get
young girls involved in trades. The
campus will offer a variety of summer
camps throughout July and August,
with a trade camp for girls ages 13
to 17 running from July 25 to 29.
Participants can expect to have
serious fun while being involved in
a unique and potentially life-altering
experience. “The goal of the summer
camp program is to give young girls
an opportunity to discover trades
and have an enjoyable time doing it,”
says program developer Caroline
Dépatie. “Statistics show that trades
jobs are in high demand, yet only
five per cent of trades workers are
female.” The cost of sponsoring one
girl in the program is $250. The
program will run out of the Capilano
College trades facility at Trout Lake.
This facility has been made available
with the support of the Sunshine
Coast School District and the
Sunshine Coast Alternative School.

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Spring arrives at the North Vancouver campus.
Photo by Ken Barbour.

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Two free lectures

The Women’s Studies department
at Capilano College will present
two free lectures as part of the
Thomas A. Dohm, Q.C. lecture
series. Both will take place at the
College’s North Vancouver campus.
Poet and author, Dr. Vidyut
Aklujkar, presents Power, Passion
and Panache: The Feminine in
Hinduism on Monday, May 30 in
the Cedar building, room 148 from
2:30 to 4 p.m. The lecture will
present an overview of the
feminine in Hinduism with a focus
on the Goddesses. Dr. Aklujkar is a
research associate at the
University of British Columbia and
has taught courses in Philosophy
and Asian Studies at UBC and in
Sanskrit at Harvard University.

Syexwaliya, a member of the
Squamish band, presents Women
and Native Spirituality on Monday,
June 13 in the Library building,
room 322 from 12:30 to 2 p.m.

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athletics banquet

celebrated the

teams’ success

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80 athletic and

academic awards.

Sofia Hidalgo Women’s soccer star
and IDEA student, Sofia Hidalgo,
and men’s basketball star and
Business Administration student,
Greg Jackson, captured the
night’s top honours with the
Female and Male Athlete of the
Year Awards, respectively. The
Coaching Performance Award was
given to women’s basketball head
coach, Paul Chiarenza. Special
recognition awards were presented
to former Web manager Dave
O'Leary, who has left the College
to accept a dean’s position at
Northwest Community College,
and recently retired academic
advisor, Rosemary Meech. The
final award was presented to
Capilano College Athletic director,
Joe Iacobellis. Each year, the
B.C. College’s Athletic Association
awards their aggregate trophy to
the institution that has accumu-
lated the greatest number of
league and championship points
in each of their intercollegiate
sports. This was the third
consecutive title for the College.

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Capilano College has redefined -

its scholarship program to